Kyle Piller, PhD

Duane and Cathy Shafer Endowed professor, Curator of Vertebrates, and Director of the Lake Maurepas Monitoring Program

Research Interests: Fishes are the most diverse group of vertebrates on the planet with more than 30,000 named and thousands of unnamed species. This massive array of diversity is intriguing and forms the basis of my research program. In particular, my lab conducts studies that focus on the diversity of fishes in the Southeastern United States, Mexico, and Central America. Most projects have significant field and laboratory components. Ongoing projects include systematic and phylogeographic studies of silversides, goodeids, darters, cichlids, minnows, and poeciliids. In addition, we conduct population genetic studies to examine genetic differentiation among various groups of fishes, as well as environmental DNA studies of imperiled and invasive fishes using single species and community level metabarcoding approaches.

Please contact me to discuss opportunities in my lab. 

Kyle Piller, PhD

Southeastern Louisiana University, Dept. of Biological Sciences

Hammond, LA 70402

Kyle.Piller@selu.edu

985-549-2191